Just got off a Zoom call with pals. I have a couple groups that try to do it, in keeping with new social protocols of the Emergency era. I would call it the COVID Emergency, but there has been such enormous success with Emergency rule from the State and Federal governments over the pandemic that […]

Editor’s Note: There is more going on today than I can process. It includes the physical presence of a Direct installation specialist, a strange smooth voice from the Subcontinent and upgraded equipment. So, in the interest of “context,” this is how we arrived in the Great Room at Refuge Farm in the morning. It is […]

Editor’s Note: Strange day at the farm. Satellite connectivity was sporadic and required long conversations with service agents who do not work near here by a few thousand miles. So, news coverage of the remarkable emotions abroad in the land were punctuated by long sessions reduced to old DVR’s, originally purchased to provide coverage when […]

So, all that stuff is going on. It is difficult to keep track of, and we were expecting a bit of a lull between the Congressional Joint Session and Riot on the sixth, and the Zoom version of an inauguration on the 20th. This morning’s show was unexpected, though it followed some familiar forms. This […]

(Wolf Blitzer, then and now). I may have mentioned this before, but I have been startled this week. Having come from a career that involved actual warfare, rather than the virtual version we have seen in the Plague Year it almost passed me by. I had a piece of humorous writing from one of Socotra’s […]

The words in the title have been used many times in this extraordinary this year. Now what? I attempt to display a certain amount of omniscience here in the Daily, but I will confess our current situation exceeds even my normal hubris with numbers on that score. Up side: we have a President-Elect now. We […]

Well, here we are. This has worked out pretty much as expected. As I mentioned yesterday, it looked like the Senate run-off votes, compiled on the same machines as the ones in the disputed General Election, worked their magic properly. The margins of victory were microscopically above those which would have required a recount. It […]

New world, isn’t it? I went to bed with The Rev and Ossoff in the lead in their Georgia Senate run-off races. This morning, half of them were declared victors. The other will probably be declared the winner later today. Looks very much like a unified government again with all sorts of exciting new stuff […]

The title is derived from the German language, which we tried to avoid having to learn a couple times in a previous century. It once had an association with something else, used in the singular, but since we are talking about ‘big days’ here today and tomorrow that share some of the same themes of […]

In the part of America in which I spent many years, this was a marvelous day to combine ridding ourselves of the last vestiges of holiday merriment and acceptance of the growing horror that the new year was actually starting. This week used to be “next year.” That is part of our tradition, anyway, but […]